Foundations for health promotion / Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills.
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- At head of title: Public health and health promotion practice
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Hugely popular with students, Health Promotion is now in its third edition, and has been thoroughly updated to provide the theoretical framework that is vital for health promotion. It offers a foundation for practice that encourages students and practitioners to identify opportunities for health promotion in their area of work.
. Fully updated to reflect the many changes in health promotion theory, practice and policy
. Illustrative examples, activities and discussion points encourage interaction and reflection
. Unique, user-friendly approach makes learning easy Fully revised and updated information, guidelines, and reference provide the latest information for clinical practice. New illustrations clarify important health promotion concepts.
Rev. ed. of: Health promotion / Jennie Naidoo, Jane Wills. 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Concepts of health -- Influences on health -- Measuring health -- Defining health promotion -- Models and approaches to health promotion -- Ethical issues in health promotion -- The politics of health promotion -- Reorienting health services -- Developing personal skills -- Strengthening community action -- Developing healthy public policy -- Using media in health promotion -- Health promotion in schools -- Health promotion in the workplace -- Health promotion in neighbourhoods -- Health promotion in primary care and hospitals -- Health promotion in prisons -- Assessing health needs -- Planning health promotion interventions -- Evaluation in health promotion.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- How to use this book
- Checklist for public health and health promotion practice
- Part 1 The Theory of Health Promotion
- 1 Concepts of health
- Defining health
- Western scientific medical model
- Critique of the medical model
- The role of medicine
- Lay health beliefs
- Cultural health beliefs
- 2 Influences on health
- Factors influencing health
- Social class and health
- Gender and health
- Ethnicity and health
- Effects of income, housing and employment on health
- Social cohesion
- Explanations for health inequalities
- 3 Measuring health
- Sources of health information
- Mortality rates
- Morbidity rates
- Objective health measures
- Measuring deprivation
- Subjective health measures
- Epidemiology and health promotion
- 4 Defining health promotion
- The development of health promotion
- Definitions of health education and health promotion
- Definition of public health
- The role of the World Health Organization
- 5 Models and approaches to health promotion
- Different approaches to health promotion
- Aspects of these approaches
- The importance of theory in health promotion
- Different models of health promotion
- 6 Ethical issues in health promotion
- The philosophy of health promotion
- Duties in health promotion
- The individual and the common good
- Ethical principles
- 7 The politics of health promotion
- Political ideologies
- Politics and globalization
- Politics of health promotion structures
- Politics of health promotion methods
- Politics of health promotion content
- Radical health promotion
- Part 2 Strategies & Methods
- 8 Developing personal skills
- The role of beliefs, attitudes and values in health-related decisions
- The influence of social norms on health behaviour
- The concept of locus of control
- Health promotion strategies to change attitudes or behaviour
- 9 Strengthening community action
- Defining community development
- Community development in health promotion
- Working with a community development approach
- Community development activities
- Dilemmas for practice
- 10 Using media in health promotion
- Nature of media effects
- Role of mass media
- Using mass media
- Planned campaigns
- Unpaid coverage
- Media advocacy
- Social marketing
- Effectiveness of mass media
- Communication tools
- 11 Re-orienting health services
- Reasons for reorienting health services
- Principles
- Strategies
- Service provision
- Who promotes health
- 12 Developing healthy public policy
- Defining healthy public policy (HPP)
- Advantages and drawbacks to using a HPP approach
- The history of HPP
- HPP at different levels - global, national and organisational
- The potential of HPP to promote health
- Resources and skills required for HPP
- The practitioner's role
- Evaluating the effectiveness of HPP
- Part 3 Settings for Health Promotion
- 13 Health promotion in schools
- The school setting
- Relationship between schools, education and health
- The context for health promotion in schools
- The health-promoting school
- Effectiveness of health promotion in schools
- 14 Health promotion in the workplace
- The workplace setting
- Relationship between work and health
- Responsibility for workplace health
- Health promotion in the workplace
- 15 Health promotion in neighbourhoods
- Definitions of neighbourhood
- Neighbourhoods as settings for health promotion
- Different aspects of neighbourhoods
- Evaluation of neighbourhood health promotion
- 16 Health promotion in primary health care and hospitals
- The concept of a Health Promoting Hospital
- Promoting the health of patients
- Promoting the health of staff
- Hospitals and their community
- Hospitals as a health promoting organisation
- Health Promoting Hospital Movement
- 17 Health promotion in prisons
- Prisons as a healthy setting
- Reasons for prioritising health promotion in prisons
- Barriers to using prisons as health promoting settings
- Interventions and evidence of their effectiveness
- Part 4 Implementing Health Promotion
- 18 Assessing health needs
- Concepts of need
- Needs assessment strategies
- Relating needs to strategic planning
- Problems in assessing needs
- 19 Planning health promotion interventions
- Systematic planning and its advantages
- Different planning models
- Quality and audit
- 20 Evaluating health promotion
- Defining evaluation
- Why evaluate
- What to evaluate
- How to evaluate
- Cost-effectiveness
- Using evaluation to build an evidence base for health promotion
- Glossary
- Index